Novak Djokovic gets the better of Pablo Carreno-Busta 6-3 6-4 in the 3rd round in Cincinnati on Thursday. Djokovic is going to play against Lucas Pouille in the quarter.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Novak conquered in the 6th game (4-2) before winning the set (6-3).
2nd set.
Similarly to the 1st set, the set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that the Serbian conquered in the 3rd game (2-1) before winning the set (6-4).
Statistics
At the end of the match, Novak scored 70 points vs. the Spaniard’s 54 points.
Novak served extremely well to win 82% of the points (36/44) behind his first serve, and he won 50% points (9/18) on his second serve. Djokovic won this match even if he was far from perfect in converting his break points as he converted only 33% (2/6). On the other side, the Spaniard wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/4). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this match, the head to head between Djokovic and Carreno-Busta is 3-0 for Novak.
Highlights Novak Djokovic vs. Pablo Carreno-Busta Western & Southern Open – Cincinnati
Next Match: Novak Djokovic vs. Lucas Pouille – stats
Djokovic will compete against Pouille in the quarter.
This will be the 2nd time that Novak Djokovic and Lucas Pouille play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Djokovic (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Djokovic won 6-0 6-2 6-2 in the semifinal in Australian Open back in January 2019.
Tennis Scores in Cincinnati
- David GoffinDavid – Adrian MannarinoAdrian (7-66 6-2) – See score progression
- Richard GasquetRichard – Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanDiego (7-66 6-3) – See score progression
- Yoshihito NishiokaYoshihito – Alex De MinaurAlex (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Andrey RublevAndrey – Roger FedererRoger (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Lucas PouilleLucas – Karen KhachanovKaren (6-73 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Daniil MedvedevDaniil – Jan-Lennard StruffJan-Lennard (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Roberto Bautista AgutRoberto – Miomir KecmanovicMiomir (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Novak DjokovicNovak – Pablo Carreno-BustaPablo (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Roberto Bautista AgutRoberto – Richard GasquetRichard (4-1) – See H2H details
- Novak DjokovicNovak – Lucas PouilleLucas (1-0) – See H2H details
- Yoshihito NishiokaYoshihito – David GoffinDavid (1-1) – See H2H details
- Andrey RublevAndrey – Daniil MedvedevDaniil (0-0) – See H2H details
